John Kennedy Would Be a Conservative Today
By Burt Prelutsky
Sunday, November 7, 2010
I harbor no doubts that Kennedy would have joined me here on the right if he had lived. Liberals will read that sentence and conclude that if it's true, it's only because he would be 93 years old, and they would attribute it to dementia. But Kennedy, unlike, say, Hubert Humphrey wasn't a knee-jerk left-winger. He was anti-Communist, he favored a strong military and he believed in lower taxes.
Kennedy, in arguing for lower taxes, observed that a rising tide lifts all boats. Of course if you mention rising tides to liberals, they all panic, assuming it's that darn global warming melting the icebergs, and, like a flock of Chicken Littles, they begin to feel the ocean lapping at their ankles.
Unlike the Democrats today, Kennedy never pretended he was poor or even middle class; he let us know he was upper crust. And if you doubted it for a second, he'd put Jackie on display with her very expensive designer fashions. Today, kazillionaire politicians like Boxer, Feinstein, Bloomberg, Kerry, Clinton, and even a schmuck named Rockefeller, want us to believe they're just a bunch of regular folks who carry their lunch in a paper bag and shop at Walmart.
Speaking of rich people, I saw a list recently that listed the dead people who had made the most money during the past year. Michael Jackson pulled down $250 million; Elvis Presley, $60 million; Charles ("Peanuts") Shultz, $33 million; and Stieg Larsson, the Swedish novelist, $15 million. I assume the only thing that kept Harry Reid off the list was that he took in less than $15 million.
But it's not just the very wealthy libs that Kennedy would despise. He would also be embarrassed by a horse's patootie named Jim Moran, who, while running for Congress in Virginia, opined that he didn't regard military duty as a public service. The reason he said such a stupid thing was because his opponent, Patrick Murray, a retired colonel, had served 24 years in the U.S. Army. If Col. Murray had not had a military background, I'm pretty sure Moran would have chided him for having spent his time working with Virginia charities and officiating at PTA meetings when he should have been defending his country. I suspect we all have a pretty good idea what Jack Kennedy, Navy veteran of World War II, would have said about a punk like Moran.
While I have no way of being certain, I am confident that Kennedy would have shared my low opinion of the community organizer who now sits in the chair he once occupied in the Oval Office. For openers, Kennedy was an athlete who, even with a bad back, knew how to throw a spiral pass. He would have blanched at the sight of Obama throwing out the first pitch at the All Star Game. One can almost hear Kennedy turn to brother Bobby, chuckle, and say, "He throws just like Jackie."
But, most of all, Kennedy would have been disgusted by the race and class warfare that Obama promotes. I believe Kennedy would have viewed the Obama administration as one long act of revenge and retribution against white Americans.
Just recently, Obama, addressing a rally of leftist lunkheads, said, "We are driving and Republicans can come along, but they have to sit in the back of the car."
The middle class, he adds, is sitting up front with him. Does that mean that he doesn't believe there are any Republicans in the middle class? Well, considering the unemployment rate, I'm sure there are a lot fewer than there were before he took office, but surely there must be some.
Also, would a white politician, even a white Democrat, get away with telling a group of Americans they have to sit in the back of the car? Doesn't that remind people of the bad old days when a certain group of Americans had to sit in the back of the bus?
It also seems ironic that with Obama driving the car, it's like he's chauffeuring us Republicans. Not exactly the image he was aiming for. On top of that, if he's up front and driving and we conservatives are in the back, that leaves the Democrats in what is commonly known as the suicide seat.
Furthermore, Obama shows his true colors when he attacks Arizona, a state with relatively few blacks, and calls on other nations to join him in condemning it for human rights violations; and when he directs his attorney general not to prosecute cases in which blacks intimidate white voters; and when he says that the problem with the Constitution and even the Civil Rights Movement was that they didn't deal with the redistribution of wealth; and when he continues to misquote the Pledge of Allegiance and the Declaration of Independence, so as not to mention "under God" or "our Creator."
Isn't it the least bit odd that he wants to go to war with Arizona, and yet join with Ahmadinejad in a chorus of "Kumbaya"? I'm almost positive that John Kennedy would have thought so. In fact, if he'd lived to see this day, I am confident he would have said, "This jerk is even a worse president than Teddy would have been."
Which leaves us with just one last question:
(a) Is Obama simply incompetent or does he really hate America?
(b) Is he a Socialist?
(c) Is he a racist?
(d) Is he an arrogant nincompoop?
(e) All of the above?
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